The sermon at St. Paul's was posted on the church's website, where reaction was swift, with some branding the sermon as "outrageous" and "sarcastic" accusing Kwong of using "Jesus to fit some personal values".
In Sunday's sermon, Kwong said: "Whenever people see me or other church leaders, they will say, 'We must speak up! Speak up at all times, on everything. It is a must to fight'.
Read more"Attempts at saying the Church of England's official teaching is not changing are, nonetheless, already undermined by practice and it seems only a matter of time before the charade ceases and official teaching changes too."
Read moreThe newly appointed archbishop is the second most powerful position in the Church of England. He has said the CofE was seen as "immoral" for its refusal to welcome homosexual marriage, stressing it would be "particularly foolish" to ignore the damage done to the Church's mission.
Read moreThese contacts don't make me an expert on all things Episcopalian, but at least they enable me to say that I am familiar with a lot of stuff that has gone on in my denomination for the past 50 plus years. I am now happily a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.
Read more"We want to make sure Christ Church tells its own history with its own perspective," noted Safford.
This is profoundly ironic as the Episcopal diocese has lost thousands of Episcopalians and has closed churches owing to its pansexual policies. The denomination itself can barely muster half a million parishioners in total average Sunday attendance on any given Sunday.
Read more"In the 'me-too' environment we find ourselves in, we want to be clear that none of the grievances alleged are sexual in nature. The grievances presented include numerous and broad complaints from staff about workplace mistreatment, and questionable treatment of congregants," said a church spokesman.
Read moreThe evangelical archbishop said it was a great joy to learn that the Venerable David McCLay, a leading member of GAFCON Ireland, had been elected as the next Bishop of Down and Dromore.
Read moreCrew correctly identified an important issue in the homosexual controversy he believed in and would, in time, push onto the Episcopal Church. Many disagree about what constitutes holiness and what the Bible means about homosexuality.
Read moreWhen Johnson took over in 2002, baptized membership was a solid 14,546; by 2017. it had dropped to 10,255, a loss of 4,291 or 30%.
In 2002 average Sunday attendance was 5,018, by 2017 it had dropped to 3,444. a loss of over 31%. One can only guess that in 2019 that figure is fast approaching 3,000.
The baptism statistic in 2002, another key barometer, was 237. By 2017, it had dropped to 101 a decline of 57.3%!
Read moreASHEY: Actually, the Cairo Covenant is the fruit of a process of healing the rift between the two movements.
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